Gilles Simon News

Mikhail Youzhny improved to a 41-27 mark on the season. Gilles Simon 's hopes of qualifying for the season-ending Barclays ATP World Tour Finals hang in the balance after the fifth seed was defeated by in-form Russian Mikhail Youzhny 6-4, 6-4 Friday in the quarter-finals of the Valencia Open 500 , an ATP World Tour 500 tennis tournament.

Top-seeded Andrew Murray reached the semifinals of the Valencia Open 500 Friday, beating Albert Montanes 6-4, 6-2, while fifth-seeded Gilles Simon crashed out, losing 6-4, 6-4 to Mikhail Youzhny.

Friends and French Davis Cup teammates Gilles Simon and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga were both pushed to decisive third sets in Valencia with decidedly different outcomes.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was forced to retire with a wrist injury while trailing Mikhail Youzhny 6-7 6-0 3-0 in round one of the Valencia Open.

Top-seeded Andy Murray and reigning champion David Ferrer were among Tuesday's opening-round winners at the $2.98 million Valencia Open.

Gilles Simon is looking to improve on last year's semi-final finish in Lyon. No. 3 seed and 2001 champion Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia takes on 2000 winner Arnaud Clement in the first semi-final at the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon.

Second-seeded Frenchman Gilles Simon was among Friday's quarterfinal winners, while former champion Arnaud Clement upended top-seeded fellow Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the Lyon Tennis Grand Prix.

Top-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga led five Frenchmen into the Lyon Grand Prix quarterfinals on Thursday by beating Olivier Rochus of Belgium 6-3, 6-2. Tsonga was joined by second-seeded Gilles Simon, former Lyon finalist Marc Gicquel, Arnaud Clement and Michael Llodra.

French crowd favorites Gilles Simon, Julien Benneteau and Paul-Henri Mathieu highlighted Wednesday's winners at the Lyon Tennis Grand Prix.

St. Petersburg, Russia - Third-seeded Serb Viktor Troicki went by way of a first-round upset Monday at the $750,000 St.

Muscovite Mikhail Youzhny overpowered qualifier Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan Saturday in the semifinals at the $1.08 million Kremlin Cup tennis event.

Nikolay Davydenko Though injury kept him out of action until May this year, it would appear that there was a hidden blessing in this forced break: With so much of the rest of the tour breaking down due to injury, the Russian is left to romp in the latter months of the year.

It's one of the hot tennis topics of the moment. But then it always tends to be one of the hot tennis topics around this time each year.

In this 1995 file photo, the late Don Hewitt, executive producer of "60 Minutes," is shown in New York.

Novak Djokovic is looking to win his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title of the year.

Rafael Nadal was the beneficiary of yet another retirement at the Shanghai Masters on Friday, advancing to the semifinals when Ivan Ljubicic became the eighth player to quit while playing in the tournament this week.

"I started the second set bad," said Nadal, who won five tournaments this year, including the Australian Open.

Serbian Novak Djokovic has a 3-5 record in ATP World Tour finals this year. Second-seeded Serbian Novak Djokovic cruised into the quarter-finals of the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 Presented by Rolex on Thursday, after defeating German qualifier Rainer Schuettler 6-4, 6-2 in 85 minutes.A Djokovic dropped 14 points on serve and hit five aces in the ...

Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic defeated Andrea Petkovic of Germany 6-1, 6-4 Monday in the first round of the Generali Ladies.

It seems like history repeating. The 2009 men's tour is approaching its final stages, and the jostling for position at the top of the rankings is working up a real head of steam.